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[delinquent_track]

Ryuji Sakamoto ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅

My question is... Alright, I got one! What's your deepest darkest secret? I don't mean anything lame like you said the dog ate your homework when he really didn't. I mean something legit. No cop outs! What do you think?

[maragiidyne]

i guess... i still blame myself for what happened to shiho. i feel like i drove her to it because i wasn't there for her -- and... it's because of me that "that man" went after her for my saying "no"...

[peachiekeen]

Oh sweetheart, I hope you don't mind me interjecting, but something you must remember is that none of that will ever be your fault. I'm speaking as someone who is often kidnapped--- when someone commits an act of evil, the only one to blame is the person doing the evil thing.

[maragiidyne]

i guess, like, logically... i know all that is true but... emotionally i'm just... ( she frowns because it's a bit hard to explain. she's not even really sure how to say it without just sounding like some crazy person who's obsessed with feeling guilty. ) ...i'm not at the forgiveness stage with myself, yet, i guess. i- i'm sorry, i know that sounds weird...

[peachiekeen]

Oh, I completely understand. If you want someone to talk to about all this, I'd be more than happy to have you over for tea or coffee. Would you like to?

[maragiidyne]

( ann feels her lips twitch in a bit of a smile at reading the response. ) i'm not sure how ready i am to talk about all this in, like, super depth. it's... all really awful and makes my brain feel clogged and muddled. but... tea might be nice, if... you're cool with that?

[peachiekeen]

Of course. I'll get some brownies started and put a kettle on.

[maragiidyne]

thanks! you're super nice for an intimidating princess... ( after she hits "send" she immediately has regrets and hopes she doesn't take that the wrong way. it's because you're a giant, peach jflksdjfls.

soon she's knocking on peach's door. )

[peachiekeen]

[ Intimidating! That's not one she hears often, with her cheerful demeanor and pink getup, but she understands what Ann means. Her royal status, in and of itself, could often make people nervous, no matter how she acted.

When Ann knocked at the door of Peach's Nimbus Cloud home, which was her summer villa on the warm beach of Isle Delphino, she answered with a warm smile. ]

Hi Ann! Come on in, have a seat!

Replying too because.. I had to

[delinquent_track]

Shit, Ann! This got too real, way too fast.

[Not that he wanted to detract from what she'd said at all because he knows how serious that whole deal was... it just caught him off guard.]

Ya gotta stop blaming your self for that. None of that was your fault, it was all that bastard Kamoshida! The way he used and manipulated everyone was beyond sick. You know I always felt guilty for what happened to the track team too..

.. but not anymore.

[Or so he tells himself]

We both know who the real monster was, and just what happened to him! He's never going to have another chance to ruin anyone else's life!

aww, ryuji. ♡

[maragiidyne]

( there's a soft sniffle from her end -- not that he can hear it. )

i dunno how. i want to, because shiho forgave me for it and basically said the same shit you did but... i just can't. i feel so stupid and responsible. i know it was kamoshithead's fault, really, i just...

( she grimaces. kamoshida really did ruin the lives of several people, not just herself or shiho. he was the one responsible for ryuji's leg and the fall of the track team after he was forced off of it to recuperate. )

i dunno how to let go of feeling like a total asshole...

[wildfirecatcafe]

a few years ago the government approached us and recruited us into a top-secret spying program and occasionally sends us on highly covert espionage missions to steal enemy secrets and/or sabotage enemy plans

... just kidding lol can you imagine? what a pointlessly weird plot twist that would be. anyway i think we're just like really boringly vanilla and don't have real secrets lmao.

[delinquent_track]

[Although it's not visible through text, Ryuji is leaning forward nearing the edge of his seat when the proverbial plug is pulled]

Hey! I specifically stated no cop outs!

[So he might have been a little too invested when he replied.]

[wildfirecatcafe]

well like i said i don't have a real secret :p sorry for being boringly vanilla

[woocas]

i bet you've gotten some doozy answers outta this one!

[delinquent_track]

Eh, not as many as you might think. Most people either don't think they have anything to share or won't.

It was kind of a bust.

[woocas]

well tbf it is kind of a BIG question to ask a buncha strangers, but maybe it's at least started some convos, ya know?

i guess i can share one but you gotta share one back dude

[itsjustabaddream]

Since I don't know you well, I'll confess I won't share my deepest secret, but I don't mind sharing an interesting one: because of my line of work, I often get to confront my client's personal demons in very direct ways, and know things about them that they wouldn't tell anyone or consent to me knowing. Not on purpose, of course. It's an occupational hazard. And let me tell you, sometimes talking to someone and pretending not to know something very sensitive about them is very, very difficult.

[delinquent_track]

So.. what are you? Like.. a head doctor or something? What do they call it... a shrink?

[Look- psychiatrist is a big word to have to type out.]

[itsjustabaddream]

[ He chuckles. Close enough. ]

Not exactly. I'm called a dream therapist. I have the ability to enter others' dreams, and I studied sleep and stress psychology in school, so I use those skills in combination to help people deal with nightmares and trauma-based dreams that are impacting their mental health and sleep.